Commentary for Menachot 98:12

הא לא קשיא דלבתר דאקריב קאמר

in the chamber of lambs. And the author [of that Mishnah] is Ben Bag Bag. For Ben Bag Bag says, Whence do we know that the lamb for the Daily Offering must be inspected four days before the slaughtering? Because it is written here, Ye shall observe to offer unto Me in its due season<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXVIII, 2. rna');">⁹</span> , and there it is written, And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XII, 6. In both these verses a form of the root 'to keep' 'observe' is used.');">¹⁰</span> as in the latter case the lamb was inspected four days before the slaughtering,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the lamb was taken on the tenth of the month of Nisan and slaughtered on the fourteenth of the same month. Cf. ibid. 3,6.');">¹¹</span> so in the former case the lamb must be inspected four days before the slaughtering. Rabina said to R'Ashi, Why six? Surely seven are necessary, for one must reckon also the lamb for the morning [Daily Offering] on Tuesday!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the New Year falls on Sunday and Monday, the six inspected lambs would, it is true, serve for the Daily Offerings of the three days, namely the Sabbath, Sunday and Monday, but surely another lamb must be had in readiness for the morning Daily Offering on Tuesday, since there is no opportunity to obtain one during the preceding three days. There is another reading: 'for the morning Daily Offering on Sunday'. The interpretation is similar but the assumption is that the New Year preceded the Sabbath and fell on Thursday and Friday.');">¹²</span> And according to your argument, [retorted the other], are not eight necessary? For one must also reckon the lamb for the evening Daily Offering on Friday!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It being assumed that the evening offering on Friday had not yet been offered, consequently the number of lambs stated by the Tanna would have to include this lamb too.');">¹³</span> - This is no difficulty, for [the Tanna] assumed that [the Friday evening Daily Offering] had been offered.

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